Small Moments of Great Reward

Peppers, peppers, peppers!  Right now, small things continue to work the best for me in moving through these days. When other matters becom...

Coleslaw!  It has been a long, hard week and I hit Friday night, when I am writing this out by longhand, with no reserves. Zero, nada, nil. ...

A young Vachel Lindsay Oh, sure, I know Vachel Lindsay, the American poet, really I do.  Not. I mean, I do "know" who Vachel Linds...

Of course I still have this book on my shelf!  Way, way, way back in the day, I purchased (through Scholastic Books, the source of all  my s...

Potatoes!  Who knew? Who knew that, left to its own devices, crabgrass can grow three feet tall? Saturday I waded into the long neglected He...

Zucchini!  The bagged zucchini looks great, no? All sliced and headed to the freezer for the winter, it will make some great meals. There is...

A bit of our downtown architecture, from a booklet I designed back in 2006 I did something this morning I have not done for years, if ever. ...